The greeks ideas changed the world
The olympics
The olympics are one of the most
popular world wide events when it comes to sports and they are watched by millions of people so you cannot really mention ancient greece without saying something about the olympic games which were first held in honor of the god zeus in case you have been living off the grid your entire life the modern olympics games are held every four years ,a tradition that was the same all the way back then back in the day they had people from diffrent city states compete and most of them were amateurs -they competed mostly for fame and for that olive leaf crown. Which i am sure it was something of pretty big deal to win at the time the olympic games were extremely important to the ancient greeks ,they stopped was so people from diffrent cities could travel safely and participate in them and i am gonna guess that not many things could stop wars at the time the openning and closing ceremony of the games have remained almost exactly the same -remember that thing with the olympic fire and how people run around with a flaming torch to light it ? Well, they did the same in ancient greece as well. Now,days it is still a huge honor to compete at the olympocs and only the best of the best in the world get a chance to participate
The concept of citizenship
Being citizen of a country comes with certain privileges and duties which are more or less the same in modern countries nowdays but did you know that the whole concept of citizenship dates back to ancient greece ?well,there's actually some dispute who actually come up with the concept ,as ancient israelites have thrown their hat in the ring as well ,but let's just say that the greeks were one of the first ones ,if not the first over to create the concept of citizenship for the ancient greeks, citizenship was viewed as a way to create unbreakable bonds between people and the state ,or in their case ,with their city-states in order to be consired a citizen back then,you had to fulfill certain criteria ,such as being born to a parents of that city state pay taxes or participate in army ,which is not that much different from today greeks shaped the whole citizenship idea because they valued their freedom so much ,they were scared they might move in between classes of society for example ,a greek farmer might fall into debt and therefor might become a slave,at almost any time even though their perpective of an ideal society definately had a few faults such as classifying people into citizen and non citizens the greeks came up with the basic idea ,and the concept has evolved over time
Alarm clocks
the important of this self explanmantory since there are billions of people arround the world who wake up with alarm clocks so they can be on time to do whatever it is they need to do we probably have to thank the great philosopher plate for this invention he was really smart and apparently really busy,so its only natural he wanted something to signal him whenever it was time to start his lectures or wake up in the morning ancient alarm clocks were nothing like the ones we use today they were complex machines that used different methods to measure time and go off at certain times of the day it's thought that plato had a massive alarm mechine in his house that used water and made delicate water sounds at certain hours other type of alarms used pebbles that would drop and hit a gong thus working up everyone in the house and probably the neighbour next door as well ,but hey, at least no one was late for anything you think they came up with the snooze button as well
The olympics
The olympics are one of the most
The concept of citizenship
Being citizen of a country comes with certain privileges and duties which are more or less the same in modern countries nowdays but did you know that the whole concept of citizenship dates back to ancient greece ?well,there's actually some dispute who actually come up with the concept ,as ancient israelites have thrown their hat in the ring as well ,but let's just say that the greeks were one of the first ones ,if not the first over to create the concept of citizenship for the ancient greeks, citizenship was viewed as a way to create unbreakable bonds between people and the state ,or in their case ,with their city-states in order to be consired a citizen back then,you had to fulfill certain criteria ,such as being born to a parents of that city state pay taxes or participate in army ,which is not that much different from today greeks shaped the whole citizenship idea because they valued their freedom so much ,they were scared they might move in between classes of society for example ,a greek farmer might fall into debt and therefor might become a slave,at almost any time even though their perpective of an ideal society definately had a few faults such as classifying people into citizen and non citizens the greeks came up with the basic idea ,and the concept has evolved over time
Alarm clocks
the important of this self explanmantory since there are billions of people arround the world who wake up with alarm clocks so they can be on time to do whatever it is they need to do we probably have to thank the great philosopher plate for this invention he was really smart and apparently really busy,so its only natural he wanted something to signal him whenever it was time to start his lectures or wake up in the morning ancient alarm clocks were nothing like the ones we use today they were complex machines that used different methods to measure time and go off at certain times of the day it's thought that plato had a massive alarm mechine in his house that used water and made delicate water sounds at certain hours other type of alarms used pebbles that would drop and hit a gong thus working up everyone in the house and probably the neighbour next door as well ,but hey, at least no one was late for anything you think they came up with the snooze button as well 
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